Sustainable Conservation: Bridging the gap between disciplines
The conference was held March 15th - 18th 2010 in Trondheim, Norway, by the Centre for Conservation Biology at the Norwegian University for Science and Technology (NTNU) and was part of the 250th Anniversary of the Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters.
The goals of the conference were to:
- Present the scientific basis for a sustainable conservation of natural resources.
- Focus on the process of extinction and management actions that can increase the lifetime of populations both at the local and regional level.
- Identify common principles for a sustainable management that also can ensure conservation.
Photographic highlights from the conference
Invited speakers are shown below. In addition, 20 contributed talks and more than 40 posters were presented. The conference brought together more than 260 researchers and conservationists from all over the world.
All photos and copyright: Aline Magdalena Lee. Requests for high-resolution images or photos of other speakers can be sent to lee@bio.ntnu.no.
Professor Stuart Pimm, Duke University, USA.
Professor Steven R. Beissinger, University of California at Berkeley, USA.
Dr. Thomas Lovejoy, The H. John Heinz III Center for Science, Economics and the Environment, USA.
Dr. John M. Drake, University of Georgia, USA.
Professor Ilkka Hanski, University of Helsinki, Finland.
Professor Russell Lande, Imperial College, London, UK.
Dr. William F. Fagan, University of Maryland, USA.
Professor Tim Caro, University of California at Davis, USA.
Dr. Hugh Possingham, The Ecology Centre, University of Queensland, Australia
Professor John M. Fryxell, University of Guelph, Canada.
Professor Steinar Engen, Centre for Conservation Biology, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway.
Dr. Hal Caswell, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute, USA.
Dr. Jane Reid, University of Aberdeen, UK.
Professor William J. Sutherland, University of Cambridge, UK.
Professor Sutherland's presentation had a dramatic start.
Professor Kjell Danell, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Umeå, Sweden.
More than 260 researchers and conservationists attended the conference. Here they enjoy the presentation by Professor David Tilman, University of Minnesota, USA, given in absentia.
The coffee breaks gave opportunities for informal discussions and exchange of ideas (here: Philip J. DeVries and Steinar Engen).
